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Oh this is absolutely true, but there is a non trivial proportion of MMA fighters with a serious wrestling background, even in UFC. A good amount of skills are transferable between those two sports, as different as they are.

Yes, but many American college wrestlers take their skills to MMA. I think he was referring to the possibility of Senegalese wrestlers doing that.

It perhaps closer to Judo, if anything?

Here's what it looks like in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHWw9UKzHAo

Surprisingly similar to games like Swiss Wrestling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRJQpXMAm3E

And Korean Ssireum:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5eyvFYjxgA

And Mongolian Wrestling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ry-OuWGhjVg

And to a point even Sumo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyA4kW-Y5rE

And Igbo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYkarWIhTDg

Turns out it just seems to be a pretty human kind of thing to do.